Chapter 38: Black Powder
The agent walked towards the door, the eyes hidden in the hollow sockets of the sheep's head mask on his face, like a monster from the abyss. It was as if the sheep's head was already a living creature at this time.
It seemed to have smelled me and the bustard, twisted its head, stared at the transparent glass embedded in the door, and then walked slowly towards the door.
The hand was outstretched, there was a creak, and the door was pushed open.
The agent stepped out and stood where he was, looking left and right. But the corridors were all empty, except for Wu Fugui's wing, which was still lit.
Wu Fugui also walked out at this time. It may be the cause of the inflammation of the wound on his foot, and he is still a little limp when he walks at this time. He walked out and looked at the agent, and then looked around as well, and for some reason, asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"Nothing." The spy pulled down the corner of the tunic on his body, and then patted Wu Fugui's shoulder twice, "Explain your affairs, remember it clearly." ”
Wu Fugui nodded, and said several times, remember to remember. The spy was relieved and walked towards the source of the hallway, and the figure slowly disappeared.
As soon as the spy left, Wu Fugui seemed to have suddenly changed his face, his face immediately sank, and he scolded the fuck fiercely but quietly, as if he was extremely disgusted, turned around and entered the house, as if he had packed something, and after three minutes, he went out of the house again, and then out of the corridor, and went downstairs down the stairs.
"Gone?" I said secretly.
"Gone! Finally gone,! Master, my legs are numb. The bustard immediately pushed open the door.
Before, the bustard and I hid behind this open door, hunched over, huddled together, like two fritters twisted together. At that time, when the spy came out, we had no place to run, the corridor was long, and this run was seen, so we could only gamble, and when the spy pushed the door open, we hid directly against the wall, and we didn't dare to come out.
As soon as the bustard came out, he straightened his body, like a big bear that had hibernated for half a winter. I was also hiding in a panic, the bustard didn't take a bath, the oily body squeezed me, I felt like I had been thrown onto a huge piece of pork belly, and a mouth seemed to be able to choke on a mouthful of greasy.
The old bustard stretched his body and asked me, "Did you see Wu Fugui's last expression?" Obviously, this guy must have some dissatisfaction or contradiction with him behind the surface of the spy. ”
I nodded: "I heard Wu Fugui keep mentioning the medicine in his mouth just now, it seems that the medicine can inhibit the parasitic growth of the skin mantis expanding on his legs, and Wu Fugui really wants more of this medicine." ”
"That's right. But I look at the tone of the spy, the two seem to have formed some kind of agreement, Wu Fugui seems to have to listen to the spies' words to get that kind of medicine, the interests of this 'agreement' are more biased towards the spy's side, Wu Fugui also has an obvious dislike for such an 'agreement'. ”
The bustard's argument is very reasonable. This spy knows about the skin mantis, and he also holds the medicine in his hand to suppress this demon, and he is like a threat to Wu Fugui "If you don't do things for me, the medicine won't be given to you, you will wait for death".
I was thinking about it, but I saw that the old bustard had quietly entered Wu Fugui's room at this time. I wondered
said: "What are you doing, just leave quickly, wouldn't it be bad if Wu Fugui came back and grabbed us?" ”
The old bustard turned around and glared at me, and scolded: "Xu Xuan, why is your donkey brain still slow!" The situation on your legs is the same as that Wu Fugui, you have parasitized the seven-star ladybug, and people have medicine to cure that thing, why don't we hurry up and go in and take a look? Besides, Wu Fugui must have gone out to entertain guests, so as not to stay in the house for a long time and make people suspicious, he is not something that Guan Erye can't kill. ”
I was silent, so I followed him into the back room.
As soon as he entered, the bustard shouted that it was not good, and the medicine bottle that was still on the table just now was gone. The old bustard scolded again: "This old thief, there are so many eyes, and he left his hand to take away the medicine bottle." ”
I looked at the pile of loose papers and bits and pieces left on the table, and thought to myself.
The old bustard may be wrong, that Wu Fugui didn't seem to take the medicine bottle out, because when he had a thigh pain in the yard before, he went back to the house to get the medicine, obviously his performance didn't want the people in the village to know that he was parasitized by the cut skin mantis, so he shouldn't easily carry the medicine with him every day. What's more, he didn't know about the existence of the two of us, so there was no need to deliberately take the medicine away.
I walked over to the table and reached out to slowly remove the paper from it. A blue and white bottle mouth was exposed.
Sure enough, Wu Fugui just pressed the paper on top indiscriminately to cover it up.
Seeing that the medicine was still there, the old bustard hurriedly leaned over and looked at the bottle of medicine that seemed to be life-saving. It can save Wu Fugui's life, and it can also save my life.
"Open it and take a look." The old bustard said.
I grasped the mouth of the bottle with one hand, pinched the cork on the top with the other, and pulled it gently, and the mouth of the bottle was opened with a bang.
Before we could look at it, we could smell a burnt smell coming from inside.
I sniffed, "It's kind of, tsk, kind of like smoke." ”
The old bustard also felt strange and said, "Come out and have a look." ”
So I carefully poured the bottle, knocked on the bottle with my index finger, and shook out the powder inside, it was black, I put it in the palm of my hand, and put it close to the bottom of my nose to smell it, and the burning smell was even more visible, although it was very light, but it smelled a little pungent when I got closer, as if it was stuck to the nasal membrane in my nasal cavity and was a little uncomfortable.
The old bustard stretched out his fingers and pinched the medicinal powder in my palm, rubbed it again, then put it in front of his eyes and looked at it, and said to himself: "It's really strange, this medicinal powder feels dry to the touch, and it smells a little choking, a bit like cigarette ash." ”
The medicine that this spy gave to Wu Fugui is indeed different from what we usually see, unlike traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine, and I don't know what kind of powder it is grinding. But now was not the time to ponder the ingredients, and the bustard then told me to apply the medicine to the pimple on my leg.
I pulled up my trouser legs, revealing the pimple. It seems to move up a bit more, and it seems to get bigger. Indeed, the skin mantis is constantly sucking the nutrients from my flesh and blood, and it is constantly moving in the direction of my stomach and intestines.
I slowly poured the powder over the pimple and smoothed it out with my hands. As soon as the black powder touched my skin, I suddenly felt that the muscles in the pimple were no longer so tense, and became much more relaxed, and the octagonal spreading streaks on the top had faded a lot. Tang Haitang said that the formation of those streaks was caused by the skin mantis in it using its legs to pull my nerves and capillaries, so to speak, the medicine really worked, as if it was suppressing or even anesthetizing the skin mantis.
The bustard was surprised: "This medicine of the spy is really effective, it can save your legs!" Let's steal a bottle and go. ”
Indeed, this thing might be able to do me a great favor. So I immediately corked the bottle, put it in the pocket of my clothes, and covered it with my coat.
After covering it tightly, I want to tidy up the table and put it back as it was before leaving, the old bustard said that you steal things and are responsible for cleaning, whatever you want, Wu Fugui will find out sooner or later. So I was simply not so cautious, and went down the stairs directly with the bustard, jumped out of the window, and then went around to the banquet in front of the hospital.
Back at the wine table, the old bustard immediately showed a happy appearance after going to the toilet, rubbed his stomach and said to Uncle Bai: "Hey, it's much more comfortable to go to the toilet." ”
As soon as the old bustard finished speaking, he suddenly hiccuped. I was speechless for a moment, this guy obviously ate before, and he was ashamed to say that he went to the toilet, whether he went to the toilet to or eat.
But the bustard was a smart fellow, and immediately answered: "Hehe, this wine swelled me just now, and now it is much better to exhale." Hey! But good wine doesn't upset my stomach, and I can drink more with this amount of wine. Come, keep drinking. ”
After that, he immediately poured a big bowl for Uncle Bai, and he also filled a bowl himself, raised his hand and kowtowed the bowl and looked up to go down.
Wu Fugui was drinking with a group of people in the village at this time, and the bulging pimple on his leg was very conspicuous to me, perhaps because of the psychological effect, I seemed to be able to see the huge skin-cutting mantis shrunk inside through the cotton wool covered with it.
I couldn't help but touch the bottle of medicine hidden in my pocket, and fell into deep thought: that Wu Fugui seems to have been using that medicine for a long time, but the skin mantis in it is constantly getting bigger, and even squeezing the skin to be exposed, and the flesh near the pimple is rotten, and his leg does not seem to have any fundamental solution.
I'm wondering if it's four months again, what will the tailor-made skin mantis that lives in Wu Fugui's thigh be as big? Can he still walk normally on his legs?
This thought swelled in my mind, and the more I thought about it, the more terrified I felt, and I interrupted my thoughts, after all, the priority now was to save my life.